1970 VFL Season Grand Final: Collingwood v Carlton

This is the match report for the match played on 26 September 1970 between Collingwood and Carlton in the grand final of the 1970 season of the Victorian Football League. Collingwood hosted Carlton at the MCG. Terry Waters captained the hosts with Wayne Richardson as vice-captain. John Nicholls captained the visitors with, in the absence of Wes Lofts, deputy vice-captain Robert Walls as vice-captain. The hosts were coached by Bob Rose and the visitors were coached by Ron Barassi.

Collingwood (14.17.101) were defeated by Carlton (17.9.111).

Match Details

Season: 1970 VFL Season
Round: Grand Final
Teams: Collingwood v Carlton
Date: Saturday 26 September 1970
Time: 2:30 PM
Venue: MCG
Attendance: 121,696

Match Results

Outcome: Collingwood def. by Carlton
Score: 14.17.101 - 17.9.111

Quarter Breakdown

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Final
Collingwood 4 . 8 10 . 13 13 . 16 14 . 17 14 . 17 (101)
Carlton 0 . 3 4 . 5 12 . 5 17 . 9 17 . 9 (111)
Margin COLL by 29 COLL by 44 COLL by 17 CARL by 10 CARL by 10
Duration

Honour Roll

Collingwood

Captain: Terry Waters
Vice-Captain: Wayne Richardson
Coach: Bob Rose

Carlton

Captain: John Nicholls
Vice-Captain: Robert Walls (acting)
Coach: Ron Barassi

Match Umpires

Field Umpires

D. Jolley

Goal Umpires

R. Pawley
T. Rossiter

Boundary Umpires

K. Mitchell
M. Williams

Player Statistics

Collingwood

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH DI KI HB MK HO FF FA
33 Adamson, Lee ? ? 0 0 11 8 3 2 0 2 2
27 Britt, Con ? ? 1 2 13 11 2 2 0 3 5
21 Clifton, Jeff ? ? 0 0 6 5 1 1 0 1 2
26 Dean, Robert ? ? 0 0 14 13 1 5 0 4 2
12 Dunne, Ross ? ? 2 3 17 14 3 5 11 3 1
10 Eakins, Peter ? ? 0 0 11 10 1 6 0 2 1
22 Greening, John ? ? 0 0 17 17 0 5 0 4 3
15 Heard, Bob ? ? 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
14 Jenkin, Graeme ? ? 0 3 10 10 0 6 15 3 6
6 McKenna, Peter ? ? 6 4 11 10 1 7 0 0 2
29 O'Callaghan, Denis ? ? 0 0 17 16 1 2 0 1 1
3 Potter, Ted ? ? 0 0 12 11 1 1 0 3 1
5 Price, Barry ? ? 0 0 22 17 5 4 1 3 2
18 Richardson, Max ? ? 0 1 19 13 6 4 0 3 4
2 Richardson, Wayne (vc) ? ? 1 3 22 21 1 4 0 4 2
28 Thompson, Len ? ? 2 1 16 12 4 8 4 0 1
8 Tuddenham, Des ? ? 2 0 15 13 2 1 0 2 8
9 Tully, Colin ? ? 0 0 7 7 0 0 0 2 1
1 Waters, Terry (c) ? ? 0 0 17 16 1 7 2 2 4
23 Watt, Ricky ? ? 0 0 4 4 0 0 0 1 0
Rushed 0
Total (20 players) 14 17 261 228 33 70 34 43 48

Carlton

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH DI KI HB MK HO FF FA
22 Chandler, Neil ? ? 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0
6 Crane, Gary ? ? 0 0 15 14 1 3 1 2 2
17 Crosswell, Brent ? ? 2 2 23 17 6 7 0 6 6
10 Gallagher, Adrian ? ? 2 0 18 18 0 3 1 3 1
21 Gill, Barry ? ? 0 0 7 6 1 2 0 1 3
11 Goold, John ? ? 0 0 10 8 2 2 0 1 1
3 Hall, Kevin ? ? 0 0 13 10 3 4 0 5 0
7 Hopkins, Ted ? ? 4 1 11 11 0 0 0 1 0
5 Jackson, Syd ? ? 1 2 16 12 4 3 0 4 3
25 Jesaulenko, Alex ? ? 3 1 17 16 1 3 0 2 2
28 Jones, Peter ? ? 0 0 8 5 3 5 14 2 1
43 McKay, David ? ? 0 0 20 18 2 9 0 1 3
35 Mulcair, Barry ? ? 0 0 7 6 1 1 0 1 1
2 Nicholls, John (c) ? ? 2 1 5 5 0 1 11 4 6
15 Pinnell, Phillip ? ? 0 0 8 7 1 2 0 1 3
34 Robertson, Ian ? ? 0 0 18 17 1 5 1 6 1
1 Silvagni, Serge ? ? 1 0 18 15 3 1 0 3 4
13 Thornley, Bert ? ? 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 1
30 Waite, Vin ? ? 0 0 19 10 9 1 0 1 1
42 Walls, Robert (avc) ? ? 2 1 14 12 2 5 0 2 4
Rushed 1
Total (20 players) 17 9 249 209 40 57 28 47 43

Legend

ToG%: Time-on-Ground Percentage, GL: Goals, BH: Behinds, DI: Disposals, KI: Kicks, HB: Handballs, MK: Marks, HO: Hitouts, TA: Tackles, CL: Clearances, CR: Clangers, FF: Free Kicks For, FA: Free Kicks Against, RF: Rebounds Inside 50, IF: Inside 50s